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The suspected shooter at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner incident has reportedly been identified as 31-year-old Cole Allen of Torrance, California.

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Truly humbled by all the love I’ve been getting from the One Piece community so I bought a couple more goodies!! One Piece Volume 1 - an origin piece of the best-selling manga ever, graded 9.6 Original One Piece production script graded 9.8 (pop 1) where Luffy gets his first wanted poster

JUST IN: Anti-data center activists are reportedly using AI to give them advice on stopping new AI data centers from being built.

I’m what one would call an “AI moderate”, since I view it as one tool among many. Now, it is quite different from other tech advances since it generates and takes action, and even the Copyright Office sees the implications for what it means to be an author. There is a clear line between generating information and true authorship, and I do not dispute that. However, I do not support the current attitude of moral crusading against AI because we’ve been here before, and not long ago either. The cancel culture of the 2010s was aimed at clearing out alleged casual bigotry from public life by any means necessary. Once-robust free speech norms, in both the arts and the internet at large, were abandoned in favor of a constantly shifting book of rules that declared certain forms of art and storytelling forbidden. No matter what you said, no matter what reasons you gave, if someone with a lot of social clout decided you were a bigot, your life was destroyed. Nobody cared about the implications for creative freedom, free expression more broadly, or how it would affect the socializing habits of young people. This is still a danger, and it’s a big reason why younger folks don’t socialize as much — they know that someone is watching, and is ready to destroy them in a flash of righteous indignation. This is why creatives with something to lose aren’t as daring as they used to be, or as open-minded; if they’re on the wrong side of the activists, they will be crushed. This stifling atmosphere is sold as social progress. Now I’m seeing the same thing happen with regard to AI use. Extending beyond those who hide AI use or attribute to themselves the work the AI did, people who use AI to explore their creativity for the first time are blasted by mobs for being creative wrong. They’re told they have to arbitrarily suffer for the “right” to be creative. They have to follow the One True Path or they’re phonies deserving of bullying. And there are those who demand that we not use certain punctuation marks, or that we write badly, just to prove we’re not AI. If cancel culture is any indication, this WILL lead to ridiculous extremes as people draw barely coherent messes or write incomprehensible gibberish just to prove their purity to people who are obsessed with power and control. (Let’s not forget people *falsely* accused of AI use. Anti-AI does not care if they get it wrong, because terror is the point for them.) I do not want a repeat of the 2010s. I do not encourage any form of purity spiraling. I do not shun someone for currently using AI or having used AI. I do not play detective, trying to sniff out someone’s alleged AI use. I do support free expression and experimentation over an atmosphere of fear. I do respect IP rights, and the right of a person to control how their image or voice are used. I do respect any creative’s wishes to not have their work processed by an AI. I do support honest disclosure of AI-generated content. And I do support the amount of creativity in the world increasing. Times are tough, but let’s not add to the misery. That is all.

Gen Z graduates pursuing "AI-proof" careers like education, biology, and pharmacy are experiencing low early-career salaries, with many earning less than $50,000 annually, per YF.

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